Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors
Are you Team Red or Team Blue?
Personal Tech02 Jun 2020 | 11
Game
VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?
The RPG The Reg speaks to Blood Music about its retrofuturistic love letter to the adventure game golden age
Bootnotes29 May 2020 | 12
You E-diot! Formula E driver booted off Audi team after getting video game ace to take his place in online race
Daniel Abt's career stalls after he struggled to shift from physical to virtual courses mid-pandemic
Bootnotes26 May 2020 | 22
Microsoft tries really hard not to say the next Xbox could be delayed by coronavirus
But its language has changed from 'clear a space under the tree' to 'our goal remains late 2020 delivery'
Personal Tech06 May 2020 | 6
Ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is here at last! Kind of
The RPG Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of your partner
Bootnotes01 May 2020 | 6
You can get a mechanical keyboard for £45. But should you? We pulled an Aukey KM-G6 out of the bargain bin
And it's not terrible
Personal Tech30 Apr 2020 | 106
NARROWER TOPICS
RetroPie 4.6 brings forth an answer to 'What do I do with this Pi 4 I bought last year?'
Fans of creaky old hardware can relive their misspent IT youth
Personal Tech29 Apr 2020 | 31
Video game cloud streaming shaken up as Nvidia loses more big names, Microsoft readies its market killer
It's all about the content. And where you can – and can't – get it
Personal Tech21 Apr 2020 | 19
Doom Eternal: Reboot sequel is cluttered but we're only here for the rippin' and the tearin'
The RPG In which case, it'll do
Personal Tech10 Apr 2020 | 56
Intel's 10th-gen Core family cracks 5GHz barrier with H-series laptop processors
New line-up includes first i9 part in this latest generation
Personal Tech03 Apr 2020 | 24
Gaming hot ticket E3 2020 looks like it's the latest tech event fragged by coronavirus
Here's some advice that should come naturally to gamers: Stop going outside
Personal Tech11 Mar 2020 | 7
Escape From Tarkov: Hardest of the hardcore looter-shooter is spellbinding despite the punishing learning curve
The RPG Fun not required
Bootnotes28 Feb 2020 | 17
Throw a sofa at this guy with your mind. She's in Control. Oh look, now I've learnt to bloody fly. She's in Control
The RPG With apologies to Joy Division
Bootnotes31 Jan 2020 | 18
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush
This is Windstream, going dark...
Networks23 Jan 2020 | 18
EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott
We're not sure if Electronic Arts has even noticed
OSes06 Jan 2020 | 112
I caught Disco Elysium fever. No, not the Saturday Night kind. I was really quite poorly
The RPG Burn baby burn!
Bootnotes27 Dec 2019 | 20
Who's that padding down the chimney? It's Puma, with its weird £80 socks for gamers
Sticky grip of sole more efficient for sweeps than for gamers
Personal Tech19 Dec 2019 | 57
Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC: Howdy buck do you get a solid 60FPS in Rockstar's masterpiece?
The RPG Read on, partner [decent GPU required]
Personal Tech29 Nov 2019 | 39
The Outer Worlds: Ever wished Fallout 4 was more like New Vegas? Here ya go... in spaaace
The RPG Obsidian nails it
Bootnotes01 Nov 2019 | 43
Is HONK nothing sacred HONK? It's 2019 and an evil save file can pwn much-loved HONK Untitled Goose Game
Please don't forget to HONK deserialize your data safely HONK
Security29 Oct 2019 | 24
What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat
Let us put it this way: One of your parental units is somewhat obese and has been rather amorous towards me
AI + ML15 Oct 2019 | 40
You only need to click once, fool: Gaming rig sales up as Trump presses continue on trade tariff tussle
God bless America panic buying
Channel03 Oct 2019 | 13
Microsoft changes encryption, another D-Link bug, phishing dangers, and more
Roundup Plus, Baltimore's disastrous ransomware infection and worse IT practices
Security30 Sep 2019 | 14
Lucas Pope: Indie games visionary makes pen-pushing feel like an exciting career choice
The RPG Ghost ship intrigue in Return of the Obra Dinn, border bureaucracy in Papers, Please
Bootnotes27 Sep 2019 | 12
Emergency button saves gamers from sudden death... of starvation
Free burritos keep the action going but, jeez, open a window would ya?
Bootnotes21 Sep 2019 | 59
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw: Well, lookie here! For once a space game that doesn't promise the universe
The RPG And it's probably better for it
Bootnotes30 Aug 2019 | 42
Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty
EoP bug now free for the world to see after bounty was rejected
Security22 Aug 2019 | 100
Cloud vendors can't resist the lucrative smell of gaming dollars – and they're all in it to win it
Feature It makes sense to provide infrastructure for the biggest biz in entertainment
SaaS06 Aug 2019 | 24
You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers
Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg
Personal Tech01 Aug 2019 | 9
Darkest Dungeon: Lovecraftian PTSD simulator will cause your own mask to slip
The RPG Try to claim your birthright from eldritch horrors, but don't get attached to anyone
Bootnotes26 Jul 2019 | 46
Observation: Slow-burn space HAL 'em up fires adventure game genre into the exosphere
The RPG I can absolutely do that for you, Dave
Personal Tech28 Jun 2019 | 39
It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze
Can I swap out the card? Then fsck the upgrade
Personal Tech25 Jun 2019 | 85
Akamai CEO: Playing games from the cloud? Seems too expensive to be viable right now
Akamai Edge World 'It is something we are interested in … but the economic model hasn’t worked out yet'
SaaS13 Jun 2019 | 29
Kenshi: Sandblasted sword-punk D&D where the dungeon master wants everyone dead
The RPG Impressive indie is an emergent gameplay goldmine
Bootnotes31 May 2019 | 36
Get the smell out of here! Gaming tournament bans players who raise a literal stink
YuGiOh takes brave stance of requesting basic hygiene in competitions
Personal Tech05 Apr 2019 | 23
Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China
Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow
Personal Tech21 Mar 2019 | 29
Within Google Cloud, a computer is muttering: Shall we play a game? Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of SaaS?
Come for the on-demand servers, stay for the sweet documentation
SaaS20 Mar 2019 | 3
Meet games-streaming Stadia, yet another thing Google will axe in two years
Now, witness the power of this eventually operational game star
SaaS19 Mar 2019 | 75
Facebook didn't care if your kids ran up gigantic credit card bills – lawsuit
Even Angry Birds' makers asked why so many refunds were being made
Legal25 Jan 2019 | 56
Unexpected final boss for games kit SpatialOS: Unity blasts multiplayer GDK out of the cloud
Updated Game over for Brit-based maker of real-time online gaming platform?
SaaS10 Jan 2019 | 11
Forget dumping games designers for AI – turns out it takes two to tango
Machines still need humans to build decent game levels
AI + ML26 Sep 2018 | 8
Nvidia promises to shift graphics grunt work to the cloud, for a price
GPU giant waxes lyrical about 5G, GeForce Now leveling the playing field for gamers
SaaS11 Sep 2018 | 54
Want to know what all that Fortnite hype is about? Whoa, Android fans – mind how you go
Malware writers preying on the game-curious with fake apps
Security21 Jun 2018 | 13
Yay for Nvidia, GPU giant report decent first quarter results despite recent setbacks
There's still not enough GPUs to go round however
On-Prem11 May 2018 | 11
Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat
GPU giant rails against rumors of stiffing sellers
Personal Tech04 May 2018 | 39
The true victims of Brexit are poor RuneScape players
Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price
Personal Tech12 Apr 2018 | 64
The Ataribox lives, as a prototype, supposedly
Promised unveiling later this month could give form to vaporware console
Personal Tech09 Mar 2018 | 29
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update tackles IT's true menace: Cheating gamers
Also some security stuff, too
Personal Tech20 Oct 2017 | 74
Fresh chips from Intel (yay?) at 14nm (awww)
But don't fret, 10nm Cannonlake's still on track for late-2017 arrival, allegedly
Personal Tech25 Sep 2017 | 24
Vid game's easiest level makes players white, hardest level makes them black
South Park doing what it does best: making you laugh, uncomfortably
Bootnotes08 Sep 2017 | 12
Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship
This whole 'Esport' thing looks serious – for games developers looking to boost sales
On-Prem22 Aug 2017 | 43
In the red corner: Malware-breeding AI. And in the blue corner: The AI trying to stop it
Feature Behind the scenes of infosec's cat-and-mouse game
AI + ML02 Aug 2017 | 22
Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on
Promises firmware fix for superhub 3/Intel's Puma 6 'shortly'
Personal Tech21 Jul 2017 | 45
Witcher dev CD Projekt Red says hackers stole game concepts and asked for ransom
Scum threaten to leak deets of upcoming Cyberpunk 2077
Security09 Jun 2017 | 11
How about a nice game of ... Tetris? Oxford eggheads slow PTSD onset with classic game
Russian puzzler soothes brain after traumatic events
Science30 Mar 2017 | 22
Nintendo Switch orders delayed: Dun dun dun... dundundun dundundun dadada!
Thumb-twitchers will just have to go for a walk this weekend. Or read a book
Personal Tech03 Mar 2017 | 32
Facebook scoffed at $500m damages. Now Oculus faces nerd goggles injunction
Nice one, Sheryl
Personal Tech24 Feb 2017 | 26
XSS marks the spot: Steam vuln dangles potential phishing line
Flaw let users add malicious code to their profile pages
Security08 Feb 2017 | 7
WTF? Francis Ford Coppola crowdsources Apocalypse Now game
The horror, the horror
Personal Tech27 Jan 2017 | 48
Putting the 'Port' in Portal: Old-school fan brings game to Apple II
Videos The cake is a IIe
Personal Tech14 Jan 2017 | 40
AI shoves all in: DeepStack, Libratus poker bots battle Texas Hold 'em pros heads up
Both robo-players ace humans – in one-on-one matches
AI + ML14 Jan 2017 | 15
Clone wars: Wrestler sues Microsoft over Gears of War character
Hard Rock Hamilton claims Cole Train was modeled on him – and he wants damages
Bootnotes12 Jan 2017 | 23
Biting the hand that feeds IT
